Dish TV to Launch Hybrid Set-Top Box, Announces Partnership With Amazon Prime Video

If you are even distantly aware of the DTH and broadcasting industry right now, you know that the latest thing that DTH operators are offering to the subscribers is OTT applications and subscriptions. To make sure that their subscribers are not spending time away from the TV screens and their platforms, these DTH operators are partnering up with OTT service providers to bring the content on the TV screen itself. Now in a new iteration of this, Dish TV has partnered up with Amazon Prime Video to bring the application to its soon to be launched hybrid Set-Top Box. The interesting to note is that Dish TV would become the second DTH operator in the country to offer such a service, as Airtel Digital TV has been the first one to bring it.

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Hybrid Set-Top Boxes Explained

The hype around the Hybrid Set-Top Boxes started when the subscribers wanted to consume their OTT content and the satellite TV channels at a single place, controlled by a single remote. Although there were options available in the market like the Amazon Fire TV Stick and others, they did not do a solid job of unifying the two platforms and the two types of content. Thus, to fill this gap, Reliance Jio with its Jio 4K Set-Top Box and Airtel Digital TV with its Xstream Box entered the market. Now, the good thing about the Hybrid Set-Top Box is that it allows the subscribers to control both the OTT applications and the satellite TV channels from a single remote, hence the word “hybrid”. Now with this new announcement, we can be sure that Dish TV is soon going to debut its own Hybrid Set-Top Box. On this box, the subscribers will be able to access various OTT applications, and their satellite TV channels as well, since the box would be connected, both to the Dish as well as the internet.